Hi everyone,

I have an idea for putting links in a pdf that would open python code
blocks in an editor. To do that, I need to modify what happens when an
org-file is published to latex.

Essentially I want it to do exactly what it already does in terms of
running pygments, and making nicely formatted and syntax highlighted code
blocks and output.

After that though, I want to tangle the code block to a file in a
directory, and insert a new link after the rendered code block. I would
prefer not to have to put :tangle headings in each code block because there
are many (e.g. hundreds) of them in course notes. It would be sufficient if
they were just sequentially numbered as dir/1.py, dir/2.py, etc... and it
is fine if these get overwritten on each export.

the link that would go after the code block in the latex export would be
something like:
\LaunchPython{dir/1.py}{Open code}

Then clicking on it would open dir/1.py in whatever editor your system is
configured for. \LaunchPython is a newcommand I have defined that works
already.

It seems like the new export engine should make this easy to do, but I am
not sure where to start. Could anyone point me to a starting place? Thanks!


John

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John Kitchin
Associate Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu